Social media giant Facebook's messaging platform Messenger announced there are now five modes to its camera, including video-looping effect 'Boomerang' and a 'Selfie' mode. Messenger has also added a software-based effect to blur the background in images taken from its selfie camera. The platform also announced new holiday effects and stickers based on augmented reality.

Facebook will verify the details of Indian advertisers wanting to run political ads on the platform through an offline process ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It had also mailed individual advertisers and agencies asking them to provide scanned copies of address and identify proofs. Advertisers will also be visited by Facebook's India-based team, the platform further said.

Singer Sona Mohapatra has criticised Sonu Nigam for backing Anu Malik amid the sexual harassment allegations against him and questioning if there is any proof. Sona tweeted, "So much sympathy for a millionaire losing work? So much empathy for his privileged family being 'tortured'?" She wrote in another tweet that multiple women and men can attest to Malik's "abusive behaviour".